Congratulations for the next joint PhD

Dana is the sixth student to successfully complete the joint degree achieving the merit "magna cum laude". We wish all the best for her promising future as a postdoc in US.

January 2019

JLU President Prof. Mukherjee travelling to Australia

Prof. Joybrato Mukherjee and Julia Volz, Head of the JLU International Office visited Monash to meet Monash Vice-Provost Ian Smith and other university and faculty leaders to enhance the collaboration between both institutions.

On this occasion Prof. Mukherjee also met Kate Loveland to award her the extension of her Liebig professorship.

January 2019

Reapproval of Kate Loveland's outstanding contribution to the Monash-JLU relationship

On the occasion of his short visit at Monash University JLU president Prof. Joybrato Mukherjee conveyed the new certificate to Prof. Kate Loveland.

With the award that reminds of the most famous researcher and eponym of the university, Justus Liebig, JLU wants to honour renowned scientists for their outstanding achievements and to intensify international scientific relationship.

January 2019

 JLU spokesperson becomes Visiting Professor in Bejing

The School of Basic Medicine of the Peking Union Medical College (Institute of Basic Medical Sciences) has conferred the title of Visiting Professor upon Andreas Meinhardt who feels very honoured as to this recognition.

Congratulations!

January 2019

Bea honoured with best poster award at the 30^th DGA Annual Meeting

 Congrats to Bea who received an award from the German Society of Andrology for her poster presented at the Annual Meeting held 29 Nov - 01 Dec 2018 in Giessen

Title of poster: "Die Kontraktilität von Prostatadrüsen in Unterscheidung zu Prostatagängen und Oxytocins Einfluss hierauf".

Nice going!

December 2018

Jessica Ott received one of the two best talk awards at the DGA

Congratulations to Jessica, the first medical student in IRTG to be awarded.
She had agreed to orally present her project at the Annual Meeting of the German Society of Andrology (DGA), held 29 Nov - 01 Dec 2018 in Giessen.

Title: "Molekulares Expressionsmuster von TOP2A und SF1 in normaler und gestörter Spermatogenese im humanen Hoden"

Well done!

December 2018

Launch of the Australia-Germany Research Network

Together with Julia Volz, head of the JLU International Office, Andreas Meinhard attended this fantastic event held on 20 Nov 2018 at the Australian Embassy in Berlin and represented our IRTG.

November 2018

10^th National Symposium on Advances in Gastrointestinal & Urogenital Research

Congratulations to Mathias who received an award for the best oral presentation in Glenelg, Adelaide
Well done!

November 2018

PhD student of project 4 in Melbourne

Raouda, PhD student under supervision of Thorsten Diemer, Adrian Pilatz and Daniela Fietz has gone to Melbourne. Hosted by Peter Stanton and Liza O'Donnell she will be carrying out research on her project "Proteomics and male infertility: seminal lasma and blood biomarkers as predictors of successful sperm retrieval"
We wish Raouda a lot of success and a pleasant stay in Australia

November 2018

JLU President & DAAD Vice President, Prof. Joybrato Mukherjee, travelling to Australia

Prof. Joybrato Mukherjee met with the Monash Vice Chancellor Margaret Gardner, Vice Provost Zlatko Skrbis and the IRTG team at Monash University to deepen the alliance between both institutions.

October 2017

New PhD student starts in the group of Florian Wagenlehner/ Undraga Schagdarsurengin

The IRTG cordially welcomes Tatjana Kuzenko, the new PhD student in project 5 (Andrology lab). We are looking forward to a fruitful cooperation.

October 2018

GGL (Giessen Graduate Center for the Life Sciences) conference held Sep 19 - 20, 2018

We are proud that both student talks in section 6 ‘Reproduction in Man and Animals’ were given by IRTG members, Christiane Pleuger (project 1) and Nils Nesheim (project 5).

Christiane Pleuger:
Molecular investigations of CBE1 (Ciliated broncial epithelium 1) in spermatogenesis

Nils Nesheim:
Prostate cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAF) promote macrophage CCL18 upregulation

September 2018

3^rd place Best Poster Award at the 11^th GGL Annual Conference

Bea from project 12 was awarded for one of the best posters at the conference. Posters are evaluated by a specially compiled committee.

Well done Bea!    

Poster title:
The difference in contractility between prostatic ducts and glands, and how oxytocin is involved

September 2018

New PhD student joining project 3 under supervision of Georgios Scheiner-Bobis and Lutz Konrad

The IRTG welcomes Hassan who has started his PhD in project 3.

We are looking forward to a successful collaboration!

September 2018

for the ICS 2018 in Philadelphia, USA

Mathias successful application for the ADB Travel Grant and the Monash Travel Grant (Study away) enabled him to attend the 48^th Annual Meeting of the International Continence Society. Congratulations!

August 2018

Poster Prize awarded at the ESA-SRB Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 19-22 Aug 2018

Congratulations to Christine (IRTG project 7) who won this year’s  Early Career Researcher Poster award with her poster entitled "Investigation of intratesticular inflammatory responses in humans and mice implicates activin A as a potential inducer of fibrosis in the testis". Bravo!

August 2018

Juliette joining project 2 under supervision of Daniela Fietz and Hans-Christian Schuppe

The IRTG welcomes Juliette who has started her work in project 2 this August.

We are looking forward to a successful collaboration!

August 2018

Congratulations to Sophie who successfully completed her PhD at Monash.

We wish her all the best for her promising future.

August 2018

Monash student on her way home

It was a pleasure to have Siv with us in Giessen. We hope you enjoyed your time here. Thank you for coming.

August 2018

IRTG fellow investigator awarded with the highest recognition of the Federal Republic of Germany

For his outstanding honorary commitment in the field of Medicine, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Weider, dean of the Medical Faculty, received the Order of Merit first grade conferred by Volker Bouffier Minister-President of the state of Hesse.

August 2018

New doctoral student starts in the project of Undraga Schagdarsurenging and Klaus Steger

We cordially welcome Shanjid Shiplu, new PhD student in project 11, taking the place of Anton Müller to whom we send our best wishes for his future. We are looking forward to a successful collaboration.

July 2018

to attend the US Endocrine Society Meeting and its Early Career Forum Workshop

Congrats to Sophie who received the Early Career Forum Award and the Australasian Women in Endocrinology Early Career Travel Grant for her participation in both meetings, held March 17-19, 2018.

Well done, Sophie!

March 2018

Kate Loveland receives the Fuller W. Blazer SSR International Scientist Award

The Fuller W. Bazer SSR International Scientist Award recognises an outstanding international scientist who has consistently demonstrated excellence in research and graduate education at an institution outside of North America and who demonstrates outstanding potential for leading and directing scientific research overseas.

The award will be conferred to Kate at the SSR 2018 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, US.

It's a great achievement and a well-merited recognition of your superb performance, Kate.

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June 2018

funded by CamBioScience

Congratulations to Elham who received a travel grant supporting her participation in the "CRISPR Genome Editing: Design & Strategy" workshop held 18-19 June 2018 at Cambridge, UK.

Nice going!

May 2018

funded by von-Behring-Roentgen Stiftung

Congratulations to Britta who secured a travel grant covering the cost for her participation in the 20^th European Testis Workshop held 23-27 May in Obidos, Portugal.

Nice going!

May 2018

for the "9^th Copenhagen Workshop on Testicular Germ Cell Cancer" in October 2018

Dana's successful application for a 2018 CRH Travel Award (Centre for Reproductive Health, Hudson Institute of Medical Research) enables her to attend one of the most interesting conferences in her field of research. Well done, Dana!

May 2018

ASRI Travel Grand Award for ASRI-CSI Annual Meeting,  June 28 - July 01 2018 in Shanghai (CN)

Congratulations to Siv and Dana (both IRTG project 2) who receive that travel grant to attend the ASRI-CSI Annual Meeting and to present their papers.

Siv's being entitled "Delineating the testicular leukocyte population in the adult mouse"

Dana's being entitled "The testicular germ cell tumor line (TCam-2) drives M0 and M1 macrophages (THP-1derived monocytes) into the immunosuppressive M2 phenotype"

This is a fantastic achievement  for IRTG with students taking home two of the 10 travel grants that were issued. Great job, ladies!

April 2018

New medical students joining IRTG

This spring, five students have taken a 'one semester timeout' from studying to do research work for their thesis within IRTG:

Deborah Dengler in project 5

Jessica Ott in project 1

Swapnila Pant in project 9

Felix Büdel in project 3

Till Kracht in project 7

We wish them a successful stay in IRTG!

April 2018

New student joining group of Ralf Middendorff

The IRTG welcomes Magdalena Kuchta in project 6 succeeding Mathias who just has submitted his thesis.

We are looking forward to a successful collaboration!

April 2019

Zlatko Skrbis visits Giessen to receive highest JLU recognition

Monash Senior Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Professor Zlatko Skrbis is awarded with the Liebig Medal for his outstanding contribution to the institutional partnership between Monash Universtity and JLU. In the presence of Dr. Lauren Bain deputy ambassadress of Australia he receives the award by Prof. Dr. Mukherjee president of the JLU.

March 2018